Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other causes lie in the readers alone : the habits of thought and feeling that they bring with them to the text , which distort or block their response to it . |
| 2 | They telephone all day ; they run after me in the streets ; they bribe my barber for locks of my hair ; they make my life unbearable . |
| 3 | Residential workers significantly contribute to the psychological development of young people in their care when they stand by them in the face of the young person 's opposition or retreat , and when they continue to strive to know and understand them . |
| 4 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |
| 5 | And you can see when they , when they spo when they talk to them after the game . |
| 6 | They talk to us on the field — nothing special , just talk . |
| 7 | Cottee 's advice to Shearer ; ‘ Ignore everything they write about you in the papers — including this ! |
| 8 | They hurt inside me like the split sacs and shattered bones . |
| 9 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 10 | If they used the money that they take from us for the maintenance of the camp we would live like kings . |
| 11 | ‘ She lives with my parents ; they care for her round the clock . |
| 12 | We need to condemn that and get on with what the public desperately wants to see … action to try to respond to what they see around them on the ground , ’ he said on Radio 4 's The World This Weekend . |
| 13 | You should jot questions down as they occur to you during the talk . |